Because there’s a disconnect in what’s narrated and reality. To a person coming from tech, $15/hr (starting) sounds like a joke but to many that’s a multiple more of what they could get elsewhere (if anything).

So say you’re living in outskirts of Atlanta, it’s definitely a better wage than <insert terrible low skilled labor job>. Not to mention there are benefits and better conditions (clean environment, stable job etc).

Everyone else is poopooing this from their skewed lenses of a highly paid metropolitan prism.